Chapter 31 of 32 · Bourbon for Breakfast by Jeffrey A. Tucker
Index
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V | W | Z
Adoption agencies, 212
Advertising. See Marketing
Against Intellectual Monopoly, 113
Air conditioning vs fans, 37
Albornoz, Bartolomé de, 71
“American Affairs” journal, 256
American Express, 91
America’s Great Depression, 311
Austrian business cycle theory, 309
Austrian School of economics, 110
Austrian School tradition, 254
Austro-libertarian tendencies, 223
Baruch, Bernard, 255
Bastiat, Frederic, 8
Beatty, Warren, 333
Beowulf, 325
Berliner, David, 147
Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook, 241
Bi-metallism, 258
Block, Walter, 170, 213
Blogging, 104
Bloody Mary recipe, 246
Boehringer Ingelheim Inc., 178
Boldrin, Michele, 113
Books
electronic and print, 127
mechanized copy, 135
Mises Institute author list, 130
Bourbon and coffee, 246
Bourbon and social norms, 7
Branden, Nathaniel, 120
Bread or meat, 241
Bryant, Louise, 333
Bubble that Broke the World, 254
Buckley, William F., 265
Bureaucracy, 130
Bureaucrat International, 22
Bureaucrats. See also Crime
bureaucrats and the free market, 130
government worker attitudes, 167
Burns, Jennifer, 118
Bush, George W., 336
Business Cycles, 309
Causes of the Economic Crisis, The, 311
Cecilia, Saint, 206
Cell-phone addiction, 141
Centesimus Annus, 107
principles, historical observations, and applications, 110
solidarity, 107
subsidiarity, 107
Central planning
characteristics of, 146–148
editorial cartoons, 301
Chafuen, Alejandro, 102
Chamberlain, John, 254
Chambers, Whittaker, 265
Chez Madeleine, 256
Child labor, 77
exemption, 79
Cinder Buggy, 254
Clapham, Michael, 136
Clothing
sartorial advice, 193–197
what to wear, 174–176
Commerce. See Free market and commerce
Computer security, 149–151
Conservatism
contemporary view of patriotism, 273
traits, 266
Consumer Products Safety Commission, 216
Consumer volition, 314
Copyright and patents
assumption of justice, 304
Creative Commons License, 115
lawsuits, 27
natural limitations of, 138
restriction of innovation, 8
Court. See Crime
Court of tastes and manners, 267
Creveld, Martin van, 167
Crime
and politics, 154
arbitrary judiciary, 158
creating the bureaucrat, 165
criminalizing resistance, 159
here comes the judge, 155
money and the courts, 160
police reality, 164
right to resist, 159
society in jail, 153
traffic ticket racket, 161
ultimate enforcement, 155
Currency. See Money
Death, 45
DiCaprio, Leonardo, 339
Dietemann, Al, 13
Discovery of Freedom, 207
Discussion flame-throwers, 219
Doghair drinks, 247
Driver, The, 254
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, 250
Economic literacy, 94
Education
Deweyite-Progressivist model, 148
failed testing schemes, 146
fallacy of degrees, 85
homeschools, 148
school vouchers, 147
Education of Henry Adams, 266
Energy Policy Act, 25
Entrepreneurial risk, 92
Etymologiae, 140
Failed drinker and smoker, 229–230
Fair Labor Standards Act, 77
Faith and Liberty: The Economic Thought of the Late Scholastics, 102
FDR, 52, 85, 263
Federal Energy Policy Act, 14
Federal flight marshals, 166
Film Noir, 319–323
Finn, Chester, 147
Flusser, Alan, 313
Fortune cookies and economics, 233
Fountainhead, The, 119, 319
Fousee, William, 177
Free association principle, 210
Freedom
democracy without values, 108
division of labor, 109
entrepreneurship, 109
individual moral conviction, 109
Pope John Paul II, 107
private property, 109
profit, 109
reimagining, 9
rights of the human conscience, 108
Social Assistance State, 108
to associate, 71, 76
Freedom, Inequality, Primitivism and the Division of Labor, 68
Freeman periodical, 266
Free market and commerce
comparative advantage, 71
cooperation and exchange, 70
exchange matrix illustration, 68
free markets and freedom, 90
fruits of the regulator, 88
government anti-market policies, 88
lobbyist abuse, 179
privatization of roads, 170
protectionism and your nose, 178
public ownership problem, 22
results of government regulation, 88
self-interest, 316
shortage of goods, 23
state ownership, 23
the regulators argument, 87
French, Douglas, 9
Friedman, Milton, 52
abolishing city trash pickup, 43
garbage disposals, 29
plague, 42
William F. Buckley and your garbage, 41
Garrett, Garet, 253
Gay adoption, 209
Gekko, Gordon, 313
Goddess of the Market, 118
God of the Machine, 119
Goldberg, Jonah, 209
Goldman, Emma, 333
Good-government movements, 251
Good Money, 50
Great Depression, 310
Guilt. See also Political Correctness
private gain, 61
technology guilt, 144
Guinness Stout, 245
Hanks, Tom, 339
Hanratty, Carl, 339
Harangue, 261–263, 316
Hayek, Friedrich von
approach to debate, 221
on currency, 52
Health
as pretext for expanding power, 184
Avian Influenza, 181
cigarettes and reverse psychology messaging, 215
Clinton health care plan, 299
pandemic preparedness, 181
pseudoephedrine, 178
www.pandemicflu.gov, 181
Heaney, Seamus, 325
Heroes
demi-gods of the state, 326
Holcombe, Randall, 183
Homeschools. See Education
Hopkins, Anthony, 352
Hoppe, Hans-Hermann, 127
Hülsmann, Jörg Guido, 221
Human Action, 68, 127
Intellectual property rights.
See also Copyright and patents
as ruse, 138
collegiate restrictions, 118
fallacy of IP, 125
intellectual confusion, 123
Mises Institute philosophy of, 139
ownership of ideas, 113
Jevons, William Stanley, 255
Keaton, Diane, 333
Keynes, John Maynard, 52
Kinsella, Stephan, 213
Beatitude of Labor, 80
child-labor laws as insidious, 80
division of, 67, 109
employee attitudes, 174
employee/employer relationship, 74
ethic, 95
impact of labor laws, 84
labor contract, 74
“labor of love”, 57
labor union exclusionism, 80
lessons of the state, 81
relationship between work and reward, 84
right to fire employees, 76
social authority, 81
teen unemployment rate, 83
value of, 95
wrongful termination, 73
Labor Day, 83
Laissez-faire and adoption, 213
Lane, Rose Wilder, 207
Lanham, Fritz G., 80
Left-wing statism, 337
Lenin, 334
Levine, David, 113
Liberal reform movement, 271
Libertarian apologetic, 207
Life
a few don’ts, 96
five secrets of success, 96
truth of getting fired, 73
Life with the Printed Word, 254
Limits on innovation, 8
Lorimer, George Horace, 256
Madmen, 215
Mahler, Gustav, 203
Maltsev, Yuri, 147
Man, Economy, and State, with Power and Market, 127
Manners
about hats, 176
button etiquette, 175
five essential table manners, 201
jacket protocol, 175
modern sartorial index, 173
table etiquette, 200
table manners and you, 199
Mariana, Juan de, 205
Marketing
costs of, 105
principles of, 104–106
Market system, 22. See also Free market and commerce
Mark Twain, 275
Martinez, Antonio, 136
Matthew of Flanders, 136
McCain, John, 166
Memoirs of a Superfluous Man, 265
Mimosa drink, 246
Minimum wage and attitude, 76
Mises, Ludwig von, 127
approach to debate, 220
biographical sketch, 204
business cycle, 311
business propaganda, 106
Mises.org., 127, 129
Missionary Sisters of the Poor, 206
Molina, Luis de, 102
Money
bi-metallism, 258
coin value, 49
destruction of money, 52
“failed use” resources, 63
fallacy of state issued money, 51
FDR, 52
hyperinflation, 336
market society, 61
political truth and coins, 49
Prices and Production, 52
private gain “guilt trip”, 61
role of money in society, 56
the fair-trade scam, 60
the great modern lie, 53
toll of anticapitalistic mentality, 62
Moral ambiguity, 322
Morals, 32
Mother Cabrini, 206
Movies
Beowulf, 325
Catch Me If You Can, 339
Dangerous Crossing, 321
Detour, 320
Double Indemnity, 320
Godfather, 343
I Wake Up Screaming, 321
Jetsons cartoon series, 347
Man Who Cheated Himself, 321
Memento, 343
Nixon, 351
Quicksand, 320
Reds, 333
Scar, 321
Spider-Man, 329
Strange Love of Martha Ivers, 321
Wall Street, 313
Mr. Jefferson, 266
Myth of National Defense, 127
Myth of Neutral Taxation, 128
Newcomb, Simon, 255
New Deal, 262–264
Night of January 16th, 119
Nixon, Richard, 351
No Child Left Behind, 145
Nock, Albert Jay, 179, 265
Nolan, Chris, 346
Not a Zero-Sum Game, 68
Objectivist clubs, 120
Ode to Chicks, 47
Ode to Sticky, 47
Omnipotent Government, 129
O’Neill, Eugene, 333
Our Enemy, The State, 265
Patents. See Copyright and patents
Paterson, Isabel, 119
Patriotism, 272–274
Pearce, Guy, 343
People’s Pottage, 253
Picture of Dorian Grey, 205
Political Correctness
civic piety, 55
environmentalists, 27
environmentalists and truth, 28
“give back” to the community, 56
labor of love, 57
neighbor against neighbor, 22
perversion of moral sensibility, 32
power leverage, 21
prohibitionism, 7
that “uneasy” feeling, 17
who are these people, 19
Pope John Paul II, 71
Centesimus Annus, 107
nature of the total state, 108
rights of the human conscience, 108
structure of society, 107
truth about the human person, 107
Pope Leo XIII, 71
Pound cake, 238
Prices, 99–102
Prices and Production, 52
Principles of Political Economy, 255
Profit’s Prophet, 255
Progressive Era, 333
Prohibitionism, 7
Public goods theory, 183
Publishing
brief history of, 133
Mises Institute philosophy of, 139
Puerto, Alonso del, 136
Rand, Ayn, 118, 258, 314. See also Intellectual property rights
Reactionaries, 337
Reclaiming the American Right, 255
Reed, John, 333
Ricardo, David, 71
Riggenbach, Jeff, 323
Right-wing statism, 337
Robbins, Lord Lionel, 310
Rockwell, Llewellyn H., Jr., 9, 127
Rothbard, Murray, 222, 266
Ruskin, John, 225
Ryant, Carl, 255
Salvos Against the New Deal, 310
Satan’s Bushel, 254
Schumann, Clara, 206
Seattle Water Board, 13
Segura, Bartolomme, 136
Self-ordering systems, 109
Selgin, George, 50
Shaving, heaven and hell, 189
Shelby, Leonard, 343
Sherman Antitrust Act, 258
Social Assistance State, 108
Social consciousness, 59
Social order
pillars of society, 308
Solidarity, 107
Speaking of Liberty, 127
Spielberg, Steven, 339
Sports knowledge and humiliation, 185
Stapleton, Maureen, 334
State ownership, 23
State Power, 153–156
criminalize resistance, 159
economic freedom, 269
government as force, 171
parasitic state, 270
pretexts for expanding power, 184
ultimate control, 171
Statism, 8
Statist Quo, 8
St. Bernardino, 101
Stone, Oliver, 313
Stromberg, Joseph, 213
Subsidiarity, 107
Ten Days that Shook the World, 333
The breakfast drink, 247
“The Free Market: A False Idol After All”, 87
Toilets
black market, 26
capitalism and waste disposal, 27
Energy Policy Act, 25
multiple flush strategy, 27
remember when?, 26
toilet disasters, 25
toilet tank size, 16
Transportation Security Administration, 165
Trash. See Garbage
Trithemius, 136
Trotsky, 334
Certified Landscape Irrigation Manager, 35
costs of unions & guilds, 33
destruction of a competitive economy, 34
how a guild strangles the market, 35
Virtues, 314
Voluntarism, 55
avoiding egregious violations, 15
federal water flow mandate, 14
hack your water heater, 20
total water consumption, 16
water heater temperature, 17
water restriction work-around, 15
Weather, 21
Why American History Is Not What They Say, 323
Wilde, Oscar, 205
Wilder Lane, Rose, 207
Wild Wheel, 254
Wilson, Woodrow, 336
Wired Magazine, 73
Wobblies, 333
Women of two kinds, 322
Work. See Labor
World Health Organization, 183
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